The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-22

treSS, Alice Perrers. She counterinanded
| royal DEGREES, and even went SO far as to
! dictate to the. Judges, until John of Gaunt,
| VINO shared the royal power with her, con.
1 sented to her Punishment
| Richard H., boy of IL, the son of Ed
ward the Black Prince, succeeded his grand
| father.
This was the gentleman to whom Wat
! Tyler paid his respects.
1t was claimed that he was illegitimate.
MS mother, Joan of Kent, granddaughter
OF Edward l., having been the wife of the
4 Earl of Salisbury, from whom she was di-
| vorced
| Richard paid visit to his faithful and
loving Irish subjects. When he returned to
England he found that his cousin, Henry of
Lancaster, reigned. Henry at once pro-
ceeded to have the King murdered.
Henry " ruled in the time of Sir John
! Falstaff
Henry, who was the son of John of Gaunt.
claimed title to the throne by descent. His
utle, IN fact, was purely parliamentary
one. BY hereditary right, young Mortimer,
the Earl Of March, should have succeeded to
the throne upon the death of Richard IL.
! Henry " was the first King of England
to engage in the pleasant pastime of burning
| heretics
|
ing Englishmen, putting down conspracies
and numbering his kinsfolk There was
dlsaffection even in his own household, the
Prince OF Wales being anxious for his faith
| ers deposition. Henry died suddenly of
epilepsy-some historians say of leprosy.
Henry ~. was succeeded by his son,
| Henry V.-Prince Hal
:. His principal occupation was slaughtering
Frenchrnen.
| Henry V. died suddenly at Corbeuii soon
after his successful seige of Meaux, in the
! height of his usefulness and regretting, odd
| ly enough, that he had not lived long
enough to achieve the conquest of Jerusa-
lem.
| Henry VI. at the time of his fathers
death was child only II months old.
This was the gentleman who caused Joan
of Arc to be burned at the stake.
1t was during this reign that England was
ravaged by the wars of the Roses, which
lasted thirty years. In the end Henry, with
his queen, was compelled to fly over the
border to find refuge in Scotland, and the
crown passed from the house of Lancaster to
| Edward of Y DIRK.
| Edward " began his reign by providing
for the murder of his predecessor in approved
| l1ingly fashion.
He surrounded himself with courtesans
| epicures, parasites and buffoons.
| ''He used to say" Sir Thomas Moore
wrote, ''that he had three concubines who
excelled in three distinct properties. One
was the merriest, another the widest, the
| third the hottest harlot in his kingdom
The merrieSt was the unfortunate Jane
| Shore.
| Edward, strange to say, died in bed.
Edward ", lad of ~, was King nearly
| three months. His uncle Richard, Duke of
Gloucester, a gentleman with a very pro-
nounced shoulderblade, took care thathe was
not troubled with the cares of royalty any
| longer. At the same time his Younger
| brother, Richard was gently informed
that another person preferred to be Richard
| III,
Richard III, the brother of Edward ",
| was the worst of the. Plantagehets, and the
last to wear a crown. With him the royal
blood of William the Conqueror stopped
flowing in the veins of English Kings, uh-
| less it had somehow got aStray in Wales
| Since the death Of the crook-backed King
no English Prince has ever borne the name
| of Richard.
| The reign of Richard HI ended on Bos-
worth Field under the auspices of Henry
| Tudor Earl of Richmond.
Henry VII succeeded to the throne by the
right of the sword.
| Henry was the grandson of an insignifi-
cant Welsh squire, who married the widow
of Henry V. and was sent to Newgate for
| his presumption.
| Henry made the throne secure to the
| Tudors, of Wales, by causing the execution
of the Earl of Warwick, the last of the
Plantagenets, who had been kept in prison
so long that he did not know goose from
cagon.
land to be exercised according to his own
sweet will as the highest privilege of the
| royal prerogative.
Henry VIII. succeeded his father, Henry
VII
This King was the English Blue Beard.
Henry married six wives, of whom he
! divorced two and beheaded two one saving
her neck by dying in child-bed and one mar
| rowly, escaping the scaffold for venturing to
| differ with the King as the head of the
| English church and defender of the faith
As the English Pope Henry plundered 645
monasteries, ninety colleges, 1874 charities
and free chapels and 10 hospitals He sent
| Catholics and ProtestantS to the stake on
the same hurdle
Henrys sense of personal dignity was
| shown in his bastardiZing two of his success
| sors-Mary, the daughter of Catherine of
| Arragon, and Elizabeth, the daughter of
Anne Boleyn.
| Edward VI. succeeded his father when he
was only years old.
| He died in his 10th year.
Edward did not live long enough to do
| either good or ILL.,
| To Edward VI. succeeded his sister,
| Bloody Mary.
| In her short reign of six years not
| fewer than 277 persons persisted at the stake.
Elizabeth, who succeeded her half-sister,
| Mary, was scarcely less bloody.
| Her court was described as "a place where
there was no love except that of the lusty
| god, Asmodeus."
The bedroom of Dudley, Earl of Lieces-
ter, was placed next to the Queens.
Elizabeth had a succession of favorites,
| some of whom she beheaded.
She was the murderer OF Mary Queen Of
! Scots.
| Elizabeth was succeeded by the son of the
| Scottish Queen whom she had beh eaded.
| As the Tudors came from Welsh squire,
the Stuarts sprang from highland free
| booter.
James /. was described by the French
| Ambassador at his court as ''the wisest fool
| in Europe"